Kyle Carpenter Quotes

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

I'm learning what triggers me. What to stay away from. What I do like and what I don't like. To me, I've learned so much about myself that now I'm a stronger person. But I still deal with anxiety. Anxiety doesn't go away.

There's a way of dealing with hardships that are healthier than going out. That's what I've learned.

You're not fully you until life has booted you in the behind.

I think you can be depressed and flourish, I think you can have cancer and flourish, I think you can be divorced and flourish. When we believed that happiness was only smiling and good mood, that wasn't very good for people like me, people in the lower half of positive affectivity.

You write the way you think about the world. My motto in times of trouble - and I'm speaking of life, not writing - is 'no humor too black.'

The quality of my life has changed dramatically - not the events - but the way I handle them and my priorities and my sense of drama.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

My therapy has come from paying attention to my life.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.

My own personality is fairly optimistic and generally very happy, but like everyone else I've been through difficult stuff, particularly in my teenage years, where I experienced enough melancholia to feed any number of electronic records.

When I was in drama school, I really got into a dark place. I went to a therapist - it was really helpful to have that dialogue with someone. So I understand anxiety.

When I stuff things down and avoid it or try to work too hard through something that needs to be addressed, that's when life slaps me in the face, and I get told. I got told to slow down.

There has been a lot of self-doubt and unwelcome events in my life.

My demons, inner strengths and physical battles have guided me through life.

There are people who have benefited from therapy without being confronted with the past at all.

If you get a diagnosis, get on a therapy, keep a good attitude and keep your sense of humor.

Keep in mind that no matter how perfectly you get your life in order, you will never be rid of all your problems. Problems are a way of life, always have been, always will be. But how you elect to view those problems is all up to you.

It's incredibly liberating to spend an hour talking to someone and not caring about what you sound like. It's about understanding myself. Sometimes I'll speak to my therapist for an hour a day. It's become part of my routine.

I've always just talked to my family and my friends. I've never been a person that's gone through excessive therapy at all. Some people might say that I should.

Everybody is not completely traumatised by their life.

I would say that I began with a very edgy, very driven personality and after a sufficient amount of therapy over many, many years, I managed to become rather relaxed and happy.

Deliverance is about what I went through the first time. And I chalk it up as a learning experience.

I am always hurt, but what are you going to do? I have to skate.

I think things hit me very hard, and I wish I had allowed things to roll off my back a little bit more.